Thursday, September 22, 2016

Sept. 22 – On this day in Montana
history in 1927 Sim Roberts died of a heart attack in a Butte hotel. Sims came
to Montana in 1878 and quickly earned a reputation as a crack shot, rustler and
suspected murderer. Ironically at the end of his life, he had changed his ways
and was serving as a deputy U.S. marshal and was in Butte to investigate sock
fraud.